Recent News from the Research Data Archive
News includes outages, dataset updates and corrections, and general advice.
NSF NCAR HPC Maintenance July 22
July 22, 2025
Update 7 PM MDT July 22: data access and file download have been restored. Thank you for your patience during …
Migration of NSF NCAR Climate Data Gateway and Geoscience Data Exchange into the RDA on August 27, 2025
July 9, 2025
Starting August 27, 2025, NSF NCAR's Climate Data Gateway (CDG) and Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX) will be retired, and the …

RDA data requests and downloads unavailable February 11–12, 2025
Feb. 11, 2025
Due to scheduled maintenance on the NSF NCAR HPC system, the following RDA data services will be unavailable starting 8 …

RDA Services Unavailable September 16–19, 2024
Sept. 12, 2024
Due to scheduled maintenance on the NCAR HPC system, the following RDA data services will be unavailable starting 7 AM …

THREDDS legacy dataset IDs deprecated; decommissioned end of year 2024
Aug. 6, 2024
The legacy naming scheme for dataset ids, 'dsxxx.x' have now been deprecated in the RDAs THREDDS Data Server. While …

New RDA dataset numbering system
July 26, 2024
Update on July 31, 2024: standard data file download, THREDDS access, and Globus transfer services have been restored. We continue …